{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 57/1908-12-17/p007","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"As we pose this question today, a few things need to be said about the overall position of Spiritual Science on these issues. This question, as well as questions about health, must be understood in such a way that Spiritual Science is in no way attributed with agitation in one direction or another. Anyone who believes that what is to be said today is agitation for or against this or that food or luxury item has a highly erroneous view. No one should leave here today with the impression that we are advocating for or against abstinence, vegetarianism, or meat consumption. All these questions about dogma, about something that alone brings salvation, have nothing to do with the innermost sensibility of Spiritual Science. We do not want to agitate, we do not want to command people to do this or that; we only want to say how things really are. Then everyone can arrange their life as they wish, according to these great laws of existence. So today's lecture aims solely to describe what is really true in this area. On the other hand, I would ask you to bear in mind that I am not speaking for anthroposophical circles in the narrower sense, which want to undergo a certain development and have to observe specific conditions. Today, the question will be discussed in a general human sense. Given the vast scope of the topic, only individual aspects can be addressed, and above all, anything related to the health aspects of life must be avoided. 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Alle diese Fragen über Dogmen, über etwas Alleinseligmachendes, haben mit dem innersten Gefühlsnerv der Geisteswissenschaft gar nichts zu tun. Wir wollen nicht agitieren, nicht den Menschen nach dieser oder jener Weise kommandieren; wir wollen nur sagen, wie die Dinge wirklich sind. Dann mag sich jeder sein Leben einrichten, wie er will, nach diesen großen Gesetzen des Daseins. Also der heutige Vortrag will einzig und allein sagen, was auf diesem Gebiete wirklich ist. Auf der anderen Seite bitte ich sehr, zu berücksichtigen, daß ich nicht für anthroposophische Kreise im engeren Sinne spreche, die eine gewisse Entwickelung durchmachen wollen und spezielle Bedingungen einzuhalten haben. Heute wird die Frage im allgemeinmenschlichen Sinne erörtert werden. Bei dem großen Umfange des Themas wird nur einzelnes herausgenommen werden können, und vor allem muß alles das vermieden werden, was mit dem Gesundheitlichen des Lebens zusammenhängt. 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